In Huai'an City, there are patrolling soldiers everywhere, thousands of soldiers and horses brought by Zhou Shixian, the pacesetter battalion under Lu Zhenfei, and thousands of people temporarily recruited, forming a heavily guarded checkpoint inside and outside the city.

Zhang Hong, dressed in bright silver-white iron armor, stood solemnly at the south gate of Huai'an City, and those officials from Nanjing needed to be verified from him before they could enter the city.

This made Zhang Hong feel quite a feeling of guarding the country for the Son of Heaven, and once again felt in his heart that he was really with the right person.

In order to avoid making mistakes and omissions in such a major matter, Zhang Hong has endured it for the past few days, not getting a drop of alcohol, for fear that he will accidentally mess things up. If you offend the face of heaven and lose your life or official position because of this, it will be even more unworthy.

Looking at the high-spirited nobles and civil officials on weekdays, they whispered in front of themselves and tried their best to curry favor, just to know a little bit of the inside story, Zhang Hong faced each other coldly on the surface and didn't say a word, but in fact, he was so happy in his heart that he couldn't do it at all.

He, a military general who does practical things and has no deep background, is the most disgusted by these civil officials and nobles in his heart. These people have not done a single good thing except for embezzling military salaries, occupying high positions, and commanding indiscriminately.

However, Zhang Hong is not afraid of them now, so he didn't give a good face.

The first to enter the city is the nobles in Nanjing, their ancestors are the founding heroes of the Ming Dynasty, the merits have been passed down from generation to generation, and now they are still hanging vacant positions in the Nanjing Beijing camp, occupying almost all important positions.

However, since the change of Tumubao, the strength of the Ming Dynasty's Xungui group has plummeted, and in the eyes of those civil officials and scholars, they are only better than the grassroots-born Qiu Ba.

Therefore, these nobles have a natural affection for Zhou Shixian, especially when they look at each other in military uniforms and guard in the courtyard of Huai'an Mansion.

After all, now everyone already knows that Daming has produced a horse comparable to the god of war, and the holy driver can go all the way safely, relying on the wisdom and martial arts of the horse master.

In this way, the concubine must be inclined to the martial faction, especially now that the three princes of the saint, including the crown prince, King Yong and King Ding have fallen into the hands of the enemy, and the saint must not worry about those vassal kings.

This is why Zhou Shixian left the princes to Li Zicheng, just so that those officials had no choice but to support themselves.

For the enthusiasm shown by these nobles, Zhou Shixian naturally accepted all the orders, he also needed these people to check and balance the civil officials, and when the time came to hollow out the Nanjing Jingying, he also needed someone to cooperate with him.

Moreover, these nobles are all faceless guys, in the original history, Zhang Gongri, the Marquis of Longping in front of Zhou Shixian, surrendered without hesitation, and it was easy to buy them.

It was even said that as long as Zhou Shixian did not move the Nanjing Beijing Camp on his face, but only transferred a little soldiers and horses from it, the empty shell of the Nanjing Beijing Camp was still there, and it would not affect their empty salaries and threaten their official positions and status, and they would not care at all.

Of course, don't let them go to battle, otherwise these people may not even be able to run, and they will simply surrender to the Tartars.

Otherwise, they won't care how Zhou Shixian wants to toss, let alone use the power of the imperial family to suppress those civil officials.

The first batch of people who came to meet were all nobles in Nanjing, they were led by Zhao Zhilong, the Bo of Xincheng and Zhang Gongri, the Marquis of Longping, followed by the brocade guards who were dressed in flying fish suits and wore embroidered spring knives on their waists, and soon saw Emperor Chongzhen who was sitting in a high position, wearing a dragon robe, and was calm at this time.

Although it is said that it is claimed that Chongzhen is hunting in Hongze Lake, and it is only incidental to summon the ministers, in fact, it is just the opposite - summoning the ministers is Chongzhen's primary purpose.

Zhou Shixian looked at the nobles who rushed in, Zhao Zhilong, the commander of the military affairs Nanjing garrison, Xu Wenjue, the Duke of Wei, Tang Guozuo, the Marquis of Lingbi, Zhu Guobi, the Marquis of Funing, Li Zushu, the Marquis of Linhuai, and Liu Zuochang, the Marquis of Anyuan..... Good guys, all of them are soft bones who took the lead in going out of the city and surrendering to the Qing Dynasty in history, this is a hodgepodge of traitors!

If it weren't for the need to check and balance the civilian officials, change the humble status of the generals, and maintain the balance of the court, Zhou Shixian would have been able to get rid of all these traitors and scum now.

The nobles knelt on the ground, and all of them wept bitterly with tears, as if whoever wept louder was the most faithful.

Zhou Shixian looked at their appearance, and only felt funny, when these people first met the executioner of Duoduo, did they pretend to be like this and show their ugliness?

Chongzhen was rare not to be confused, and he also knew the nature of these nobles, so he only symbolically comforted them and asked some questions, especially after learning about the basic situation of the civil officials, ministries, prefectures and provinces in Nanjing, he let them retreat.

As the first batch of ministers to be summoned, although these nobles showed fierce loyalty, they all said that if they knew that the holy car was here, they would have taken the lead and come to meet them.

But the ridiculous gesture of resignation when they retreated still unreservedly revealed their true nature.

However, ridiculous is ridiculous, Chongzhen and Zhou Shixian's goals have also been achieved, just looking at the tear stains on these people's faces, nervous expressions, panicked faces, and constant sweat, they know that the monarch has been established, and the emperor's grace is mighty.

This is the so-called "the minister is the king, and the grace will be revealed", otherwise, these people will inevitably have a contempt and feel that the emperor is nothing more than that, and then I am afraid that there will be many situations of not listening to the tune and not listening to the announcement, and it will be even more difficult to rectify the court.

And this is one of the reasons why Zhou Shixian didn't kill Emperor Chongzhen.

If this ready-made emperor is gone, he holds a lot of power in his hands, and his name is not right, he must have asked for them.

As ministers of support, it is difficult to say whether these people will be like the original history of treating King Fu, the military generals support the army and respect themselves, and the civil ministers despise the monarchy.

Even if Zhou Shixian had a knife in his hand, after he operated and solved the internal problems, Duoduo had already waved south, what would he use to resist it at that time?